Title: Re/reading the past
Subtitle: Critical and functional perspectives on time and value
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 8
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/http://www.benjamins.nl
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DAPSAC_8
Editor: J.R. Martin, University of Sydney
Ruth Wodak, University of Vienna
Hardback: ISBN: 1588114317, Pages: vi, 277 pp., Price: USD 90.00
Comment: Hardback: ISBN: 9027226989, Pages: vi, 277 pp., Price: EUR 90.00
Abstract:
Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from
the c omplementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book
stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the
different social narratives whi ch compete for official
acknowledgement. Issues of collective and cultural memory are
addressed, reflecting the "linguistic turn" in the Social Scienc
es. The book covers a range of discourses, interpreting texts from
popular culture to academic discourse including the construction and
evaluation of past events in a variety of places around the world. It
is especially timel y in its focus on the construction of time and
value in a post-colonial wor ld where history discourses are central
to on-going processes of reconcilia tion, debates on war crimes, and
the issues of amnesty and restitution. As such the book fills a
significant gap in interdisciplinary debates as well as in register
and genre analysis, and will be of general interest to histo rians,
political scientists and discourse analysts as well as students and
teachers of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for
Academ ic Purposes).
Table of contents
Introduction
J.R. Martin and Ruth Wodak 1
I. Constructing time and value: Semiotic resources
Making history: Grammar for interpretation
J.R. Martin
II. Recent past: Telling stories
News as history: Your daily gossip
Peter R.R. White
Challenging media censoring: Writing between the lines in the face of
stringent restrictions
Christine Anthonissen
III. Distant past: Making history
The discursive construction of individual memories: How Austrian
ehrmacht soldiers remember
Gertraud Benke and Ruth Wodak
The languages of the past: On the re-construction of a collective
history through individual stories
Florian Menz
Orthopraxy, writing and identity: Shaping lives through borrowed genres in
Congo
Jan Blommaert
History as discourse; discourse as history: The rise of modern China A
history exhibition in post-colonial Hong Kong
John Flowerdew
IV. Yesteryear: Instilling memories
Reconstruals of the past settlement or invasion? The role of JUDGEMENT
analysis
Caroline Coffin
Pearl Harbor in Japanese high school history textbooks: The grammar
and semantics of responsibility
Christopher Barnard
Index
Lingfield(s):
Pragmatics
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)
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